Sr. Database Migrations Specialist, Database

Basic qualifications
- 7+ years as a solution architect, migration specialist, DBA, Database Engineer, or similar role is required.
- Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of one or more relational databases or NoSQL systems.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence others internally and externally.

Job summary
The Cloud is where it’s at - this goes without saying. Enterprises of all shapes and sizes are moving to the cloud and they need your help to do it. If you want to help migrate companies to the cloud while providing input on the products and services needed to enable this mass migration - read on.

This is no small task, as you’ll be helping large customers get a great start on their cloud migration journey. You’ll use your experience and real-world know how to help build proof of concept projects for customers and develop their own migration center of excellence teams. If you’re interested in having a measurable impact on businesses ranging from educations institutions through to multi-national corporations - this is the role for you.
Databases Services at AWS covers a range of data platforms including Amazon Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, Athena, as well as AWS Database Migration Service, Data Pipeline, Glue and more. As each service grows, so does adoption by customers world-wide. You will be dealing with implementing programs which merge all the service content, programs, and processes to drive migrations to the cloud.

Joining the AWS Database Services team as migration specialist on the MaaS team gives you the opportunity to:

- Engage with companies in a diverse range of industries and verticals.
- Solve complex problems that will revolutionize computing in the cloud.
- Work for a company that’s at the forefront of the cloud computing space.
- Be involved in the fast growing managed services space - learn from the experts.
- Join the team whose activities are regularly called out publicly by our CEO.

Key job responsibilities
In this position you will deal with demanding customers and pressing deadlines - but that just keeps things interesting. You’ll have exceptional problem solving skills, strong business judgment, and demonstrated experience working with cross-functional teams. You should have proven ability to execute both strategically and tactically, and be excited to take on new, ambiguous projects that will be industry defining. This position requires a solid technical background, and you should be customer-focused with a passion for the cloud and information technology. Specific ownership includes the following:

- Working with customers, AWS sales, professional services, solution architects and product teams to drive migrations.
- Assisting with the execution of migration discovery workshops with the largest enterprise customers.
- Identifying technical solutions to migration obstacles while ensuring appropriate resources including training and assistance are available as required.
- Research and identify new opportunities for AWS to innovate on behalf of our customers.
- Operate test environment in cloud, run and analyze test results, perform diagnostics and troubleshooting, open, prioritize, and help triage defects, track and report test status and results.

Preferred qualifications
- Previous experience managing Software-as-a-Service technology products and managed services.
- Knowledge of database migration software and technologies.
- Deep knowledge of more than one database - Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, MongoDB, Cassandra, Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum, MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Understanding of the Enterprise services space, particularly database and analytics.
- Experience with building products and services for partners, resellers, managed services providers, and consulting companies.
- Ability to analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, and scope business requirements.
- Ability to deliver initiatives from conception through completion.
- Excellent speaking-listening-writing skills, attention to details, proactive self-starter.
- Ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads.
- Ability to develop new ideas and creative solutions.
- Experience with software development methodologies and programming languages such as Java or C#.
- Consulting experience is a plus.
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role